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More on Floating Point

January 14, 2005 ·

A little while ago I explained why decimalFormat() did not have the bug that certain folks were claiming. I wasn't entirely happy with my explanation. Here's what I should have said: Eric Lippert explains why floating point numbers aren't accurate on binary digital computers.
Eric's blog is one of only a few Microsoft blogs that I read regularly. He writes some great stuff (although I wish he wouldn't use purple text).

I'll be discussing rounding issues in floating point in the next few blog entries.

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